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09-13-2010, 09:16 PM
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Last Sunday, the drummer that I have been playing with 45+ Sundays a year for the last 9 years announced that he was leaving the church to find one closer to where he lives. He moved 45 minutes away almost 2 years ago and I knew this was coming, but I am really bummed out about this. He is the best drummer that I have ever played with, very much a Motown/jazz styled drummer that always played EXACTLY what the song called for, every time. His timing is so good that metronomes practice to him. I never had to think when playing with him, we just jelled perfectly and ALWAYS got complemented on our playing together.
Sorry for the rambling post, but I am really bummed out about this. I doubt that we will find another drummer that can touch him in ability, not to mention that I have known him for the better part of my life and we used to work on motorcycles together as well. A very sad day for me.
lowsound
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09-13-2010, 10:03 PM
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09-13-2010, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Germantown, MD | | God isn't worth driving 45 minutes for???? 
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09-13-2010, 10:12 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | You could travel to his new church, or arrange some other sorts of gigs in the local area you're both living in, maybe? It's not as if 45 minutes away is far to go. Only one of my fellow musicians lives in my own city, most are that sort of distance away and several are further still.
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09-13-2010, 10:13 PM
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09-13-2010, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill You could travel to his new church, or arrange some other sorts of gigs in the local area you're both living in, maybe? It's not as if 45 minutes away is far to go. Only one of my fellow musicians lives in my own city, most are that sort of distance away and several are further still. | This is what I'd do, definitely dont lose contact with him.
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09-13-2010, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by f'nar f'nar Burn down all churches closer to him? | \m/ 
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09-13-2010, 10:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: perth | | | are you really complaining about a 45 min drive?!!
no-one in my band lives closer that half an hour away.
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09-13-2010, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga So move to where he lives. | Oh, yeah. 45 minutes? I played regularly with a guy twice as far away. The one band I was in played twice a week 45 minutes away. I understand that close is good, but you go where the music is.
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09-14-2010, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Sorry for the rambling post, but I am really bummed out about this. I doubt that we will find another drummer that can touch him in ability, not to mention that I have known him for the better part of my life and we used to work on motorcycles together as well. A very sad day for me. | Reality bites. Associations form and dissolve. But there may be another drummer even better than he is just over the horizon; your quest is to find him. |
09-14-2010, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by ggunn ...your quest is to find him. | Or her... just sayin'. |
09-14-2010, 08:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | It isn't that the drive was bothering him, he wants to be in a local church in his community, which I totally understand. That is what I want as well and what our church encourages.
lowsound
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09-14-2010, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound It isn't that the drive was bothering him, he wants to be in a local church in his community, which I totally understand. That is what I want as well and what our church encourages.
lowsound | So do some playing out of church, maybe? I think all people are saying is that it seems odd to lament so sadly the end of all musical contact with the guy when he's only 45 minutes down the road.
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09-14-2010, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill So do some playing out of church, maybe? I think all people are saying is that it seems odd to lament so sadly the end of all musical contact with the guy when he's only 45 minutes down the road. | As a full time engineering student, I am surprised that I find time to sleep, much less play in a band. I wish I could start up a band with him, but I just don't have the time. Maybe sometime in the future.
lowsound
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09-14-2010, 05:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England | | Someone has to at least float this possibility that it is not the drive that is making him move on?? Hmmmmm?
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09-14-2010, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Honk'n_down-low Someone has to at least float this possibility that it is not the drive that is making him move on?? Hmmmmm? | I don't think the drive really plays much into it, he does it every day for work. The reason is that he feels he needs to be in a church that is local to him, not one that is 45 minutes away in a different town altogether. We are a very community minded church and he wants to be involved in his community. He is really looking forward to this change in life and I an happy for him, I am just going to miss working with such an amazing drummer.
lowsound
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